News Delivery in Enterprise Setting

Abstract

In one example, an enterprise news service may leverage knowledge of existing collaborative relationships between workers to pre-populate news sources for the news feed of a worker. The enterprise news service may determine an enterprise relationship describing a relationship within an enterprise between a worker and a colleague. The enterprise news service may associate the colleague with a news source set based on the enterprise relationship. The enterprise news service may receive a news item from the colleague. The enterprise news service may post the news item to a news feed of the worker based on the enterprise relationship.

We claim: 
     
         1 . An enterprise news service, comprising:
 a processing core having at least one processor configured to determine an enterprise relationship describing a relationship within an enterprise between a worker and a colleague;   memory configured to associate the colleague with a news source set based on the enterprise relationship; and   a communication interface configured to receive a news item from the colleague and post the news item to a news feed of the worker based on the enterprise relationship.   
     
     
         2 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the memory is further configured to identify the enterprise relationship as at least one of a manager, a collaborator, and a collaborator manager. 
     
     
         3 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the processing core is further configured to assign a source rating to the news item based on the enterprise relationship of the colleague. 
     
     
         4 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the processing core is further configured to adjust a source rating for a collaborator manager based on a quantity of collaborators reporting to the collaborator manager. 
     
     
         5 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the processing core is further configured to assign a subject rating to the news item based on a subject matter of the news item. 
     
     
         6 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the processing core is further configured to assign a relevancy rating to a set of news items based on at least one of a source rating and a subject rating. 
     
     
         7 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the communication interface is further configured to push the news item to the worker when a relevancy rating of the new item is greater than a push threshold. 
     
     
         8 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the communication interface is further configured to receive a user input to at least one of remove the colleague from the news source set and add a news source to the news source set. 
     
     
         9 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the communication interface is further configured to receive a visit notification from a collaboration site indicating a visit by the worker. 
     
     
         10 . The enterprise news service of  claim 1 , wherein the memory is further configured to associate a collaboration site with the news source set for the worker based on a site visit by the worker. 
     
     
         11 . A computing device, having a memory to store a series of instructions that are executed by at least one processor to implement a news reader, the computing device configured to
 maintain a worker profile describing a worker news preference based on an enterprise relationship describing a relationship within an enterprise between a worker and a colleague;   receive from an enterprise news service a news item published by the colleague based on the enterprise relationship; and   present the news item to the worker.   
     
     
         12 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 categorize a subject matter for the news item.   
     
     
         13 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 receive the news item having a relevancy rating greater than a push threshold as a push news item.   
     
     
         14 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 assign the news item to a time bucket describing a time period during which the news item was posted.   
     
     
         15 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 assign a relevancy rating describing relevancy to the worker to the news item based on at least one of a source rating and a subject rating.   
     
     
         16 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 compare a relevancy rating of the news item to the worker profile.   
     
     
         17 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 arrange a news item set in a time bucket based on a relevancy rating describing relevancy to the worker.   
     
     
         18 . The computing device of  claim 11 , wherein the computing device is further configured to
 update a worker profile describing the worker news preference based on an interaction of the worker with the news item.   
     
     
         19 . A machine-implemented method, comprising:
 determining an enterprise relationship describing a relationship within an enterprise between a worker and a colleague;   adding a colleague handle identifying the colleague to a news source set based on the enterprise relationship;   developing a worker profile describing a worker news preference based on the enterprise relationship;   receiving a news item published by the colleague; and   posting the news item to a news feed of the worker based on the enterprise relationship.   
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , further comprising:
 pushing the news item to the worker when a relevancy rating of the new item is greater than a push threshold.